not even the rain

Chris Riccomini pointed me to a visualization he has worked on with his sister, Alex Riccomini, of ee cummings' work.

The visualization shows the complete work. Starting at the 12 o'clock position, each bar at the edge of the circle represents a poem. Poems progress in a clock-wise direction. Each ray represents a line in the poem. The coloring of the bar represents the theme of that poem. The thickness of the bars represents the word count for that poem.

 

I'd be interested to know more about how the themes of the poems were determined and if an automated approach would lead to even more interesting presentations.